Original Policy Content on Presidential Campaign Sites: "Gun"

Inspired by a series of CNN tweets capturing Democratic Presidential candidates' policy proposals related to guns, the websites of many of the most-discussed candidates were searched using Google for the word "gun."

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Methodology

Each political campaign website was searched using Google on August 5, 2019. To limit results by campaign, the operator "site:" was used along with the word "gun."

The results shown below may not capture all relevant pages: A newly added page may not yet have been indexed by Google, a page could be tagged with a "noindex" instruction to prevent indexing, content could be included in a graphic, etc.

False positives may also have been returned. A website could include the word "gun" in the meta description, but not on a page.

Throughout the test, the browser's cache was repeatedly cleared. Signals like location were not obscured and may have impacted Google search results.

Since not all candidate sites include a readily accessible search feature, Google search results were not cross-referenced with what a candidate's site "thinks" it has related to the word "gun."

Below are current examples from the official websites of Democrats and Republicans running for President.